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genteel

[jen-teel] / dʒɛnˈtil /


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Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is nothing folksy, never mind pastoral or genteel, about Crews.

From Los Angeles Times

After Signature’s return to live theater in November with a boisterous staging of Jonathan Larson’s “Rent,” some may experience the genteel sophistication of “She Loves Me” as a bit, well, tame.

From Washington Post

Ottawa is known for ice skaters on the frozen Rideau Canal and a generally more genteel style of politics than that in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times

Canadian politics may in fact be more genteel than in many other places, but not because Canadians are innately kinder.

From New York Times